Google’s recent purchase of YouTube has caused quite a stir in the industry as Google moves from a search and adverstising company to a media company and that means Google’s YouTube won’t fly in China according to David Wolf at Silicon Hutong.
“A Web site that plays videos but is not a licensed broadcaster? That’s […]

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Steve Rubel of Micropersuasion reports on the Edelman and Technorati study of the most influential blogs in German, French and Italian.

Further information will be available during a presentation later this week in Milano where the results will be presented to participants.

The event is open to the public and scheduled on Friday 13, starting […]

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This week President Putin introduced a new bill to clamp down on the gambling industry in Russia. The new bill entitled “About the State Regulation of Activities on Gambling” in currently in the project stage and has yet to be passed by the Russian Duma (government).
In regard to offline gambling, the new bill proposes […]

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The new numbers of the Dutch National Search Engine Monitor (research 1.379 Dutch people) provided by search engine marketing company Checkit and RM Interactive show that Google still the most used search engine.
Sometimes used
Google 96% (+1)
Ilse 20% (-2)
Live.nl 8% (-5)
Yahoo! 8% (+3)
Lycos 4% (=0)
Mostley used
Google 90% (-1)
Ilse 4% (-1)
Live.nl 1% (-1)
Yahoo! 0% (=0)
Lycos 0% […]

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China Tech Stories noted on September 27, 2006 that the Google’s logo on google.cn was the original and not the newly created one for Guge, Google China’s name. However the old Guge logo came back so many thought it was a fluke. Today however, Gemme van Hasselt notes that it has been gone again for […]

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In a conversation with Multilingual Search, Guy Phillipson, Chief Executive of the IABUK commented that paid search should exceed £1 billion by the end of 2006 in the UK.
Guy says, “Search is the perfect form of persuasion marketing and is rapidly becoming the largest slice of the pie in the UK - it is already […]

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The IABUK, reported in the Guardian says that paid for search advertising or pay per click, has risen by 57.7% this year over last.
The finding comes in their annual study of online market share carried out with Pricewaterhouse Coopers and the World Advertising Research Centre.
A YouGov finding also says that UK web users now spend […]

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Media research firm Zenithoptimedia reports that 8 countries will dedicate more than 10% of their budgets to online marketing by 2008. Two countries will already cross that barrier this year - the UK adn Sweden - interestingly not the US.
The 8 countries are:-
Australia
Israel
Japan
Norway
South Korea
Taiwan
UK
In 2008 it is estimated that 17.2% of marketing spend in […]

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The popularity of blogs in China is evident by the growth of 30 times the number in the last four years. 17.5 million people fancy themselves blog writers while 55 million are regular readers. This comes from the latest report by the government’s China Internet Network Information Center. The Internet and blogs […]

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Many CMs aired in Japan now mention a keyword phrase, some even show a phrase being typed in the search window on commercial.
According to Internet.com and goo Research, 52% of the Internet users who responded to the survey have responded that they remembered seeing such CMs, and 30% of them also responded that […]

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Yahoo Japan made a licensing agreement with Mediabolic for its web media product software, with which Yahoo Japan is going to develop “Yahoo! digital home engine”.
Once it’s developed, people can access Yahoo Japan’s services such as search engine, auction, and photo albums, from TV screen at home.
In Japan, people 30 and up prefer to […]

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Marketing Sherpa has released an annual research study into the state of search engine optimisation (SEO).
The study reveals a significant customer satisfaction amongst those employing organic placement with search engine traffic increments ranging from 73% to 110% for those firms who decided to outsource this activity to professionals.

The conclusions are that SEO is the […]

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Alibaba.com’s Yahoo China filed a lawsuit against Qihoo.com for unfair-competition. The lawsuit was filed in Beijing’s No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court. Beijing Sanjiwuxian Internet Technology, which operates the Qihoo.com Web portal, distributes software , “360safe”, that urges users to unistall the Yahoo Toolbar which Qihoo.com reports as malware . Qihoo.com was founded by former […]

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Spanish is the third top spoken language in the World, yet a recent Accenture study found that the fact is no indication of it´s performance online.

Lets look at the numbers
Internet growth in Latin America and Spain just last year was 337% and 375% respectively, yet Internet penetration is still below the European average (38% in […]

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More fun domain disputes. If you’ve been following Multilingual Search for some time you may have read a story last year, about internationalizing the Chilean .cl domains.
To summarize, it means that the .cl domains can use “ñ”, “ü” and other accentuated characters, grammatically correct Spanish.
The dispute was between the Spanish giant Telefonica España […]

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Google’s vertical markets director, Jeff Levick, highlighted the importance of translation, machine translation in other words, during the “Future of Search” panel debate at London’s AdTech, which I was fortunate enough to moderate.
Jeff pointed to the fact that there are twice as many Chinese speakers in the world as English - not all the world […]

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The conference was full of motivated people and interestingly enough more and more people have tried search. In fact in a survey conducted during the conference the attendants were asked what type of webmarketing activities they are currently working with. About 70% of the audience conducted search related marketing (both paid and organic). This was […]

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The race is on to see which engine will deliver a contextual advertising program for ordinary webmasters in Russia to rival Google.
Well it was only this Tuesday when I wrote that, and it seems that race has started in ernest today.
Yandex, the largest search engine in Russia, have just announced that the barrier to […]

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Rambler, the No.2 search engine in Russia with a 20% share in the market, have released their financial statement for the 1st half of 2006 [LSE: RMG]
Report Highlights:

Total revenue up nearly 100% period on period to US$ 16 million (US$ 8 million)
Internet total revenue up 137% to US$ 12.3 million (US$ 5.2 million), representing 78% […]

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Internet World, the magazine about webmarketing, has a conference in Stockholm this week. Search is one of the major topics and about 250 people have registered to attend the conference. It will take place tomorrow, tuesday 26th and wednesday the 27th. It is the second conference Internet World is presenting on webmarketing this […]

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